The Case of the Team Spirit
10 best books like The Case of the Team Spirit (John Allison): The Adventures of Superhero Girl, Bandette, Volume 1: Presto!, MIND MGMT, Volume Three: The Home Maker, Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling, A Redtail's Dream, Gunnerkrigg Court, Vol. 3: Reason, Namesake, Volume 1, Johnny Wander, Vol. 1: Don't Burn the House Down, Axe Cop, Vol. 1, Cucumber Quest, Vol. 1
| Author | Faith Erin Hicks |
| ISBN | 1616550848 |
What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores, and have a weakness for kittens, and a snarky comment from Skeptical Guy can ruin a whole afternoon? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks brings her skills in character design and sharp,...
| Author | Paul Tobin |
| ISBN | 1616552794 |
She is ALLURING
She is MYSTERIOUS
She is BANDETTE!
The world's greatest thief is a costumed teen burglar by the nome d'arte of Bandette! Gleefully plying her skills on either side of the law alongside her network of street urchins, Bandette is a thorn in the side of both Police...
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1616553901 |
I didn't enjoy this volume as much as the previous two. The storytelling is somewhat scattered and hard to follow as a gazillion new agents are introduced and given their own backstories. I had a hard time following the stories over the first 3 or 4 issues as they began, dropped for a couple of issues and...
| Author | Tony Cliff |
| ISBN | 1626721556 |
We're so pleased to be publishing a second volume of Delilah Dirk's adventures (and we love this one even more than the first).
This volume is especially awesome because it gives us the set-up of a main character who's basically 100% awesome -- having to go back to her home and deal with her parents,...
| Author | Minna Sundberg |
| ISBN | 9163746271 |
A Redtail's Dream is something that isn't often seen in mainstream comics. There are no superheroes, excessive violence, grittiness or sex. What we have instead is a modern adventure making use of the folklore of Finland to create a resonant and beautiful tale of friendship.
Hannu and Ville,...
| Author | Thomas Siddell |
| ISBN | 1936393239 |
In the third volume of this critically acclaimed Webcomic series, Annie and Kat continue to uncover terrible secrets about their school, Gunnerkrigg Court, while relationships grow and the boundaries of reality are blurred. In the meantime, Coyote begins to show that things in the forest are not...
Namesake is the story of Emma Crewe, a woman who discovers she can visit other worlds. She finds out that these are places she already knows – fantasy and fairy lands made famous through the spoken word, literature and cinema. Her power as a Namesake forces her to act as a protagonist in these familiar...
One of our teen volunteers was the first to recommend the Johnny Wander webcomic to me. I was looking for good webcomics at the time and kept up with it, as well as others I found at the time, ever since. It emerged as one of my favorites.
Ananth and Yuko feel like friends of mine. They're cat people (I'm...
| Author | Malachai Nicolle |
| ISBN | 1595826815 |
Bad guys beware Evil aliens, run for your lives Axe Cop is here, and he's going to chop your head off We live in a strange world, and our strange problems call for strange heroes. That's why Axe Cop -- along with his partner Flute Cop and their pet T-Rex Wexter -- is holding try-outs to build the greatest team...
Prologue and Chapter 0 of the webcomic!
The same old story . . .
An ancient evil resurrected, a world of dreams in peril . . . you know how it goes. What we need is a legendary hero, but what we've got is Cucumber, a boy who's better suited to studying than monster-slaying. He's just been accepted...
My Great Questionable Content Binge continues with the third collection of the slice-of-life webcomic. So Marten and Dora have become a couple, but it's interesting to see just how early that Dora's insecurity over the situation raised its head. I had forgotten about that, from when I was reading it...
| Author | Natalie Riess |
| ISBN | 1620103133 |
Collecting the first four issues of Natalie Riess's delectable series, SPACE BATTLE LUNCHTIME! Earth baker Peony gets the deal of a lifetime when she agrees to be a contestant on the Universe's hottest reality TV show, Space Battle Lunchtime! But that was before she knew that it shoots on location......
| Author | Sara Ryan |
| ISBN | 1595829938 |
Lives intersect in the most unexpected ways when teenagers Anne and Lewis cross paths at an estate sale in sleepy Failin, Oregon. Failin was once a thriving logging community. Now the town's businesses are crumbling, its citizens bitter and disaffected. Anne and Lewis refuse to succumb to the fate...
| Author | Sam Humphries |
| ISBN | 1608869997 |
Jonesy has the power to make people fall in love! Anyone. With anything.There’s only one catch—it doesn’t work on herself!
She doesn’t sling arrows, only attitude! The adventures of Jonesy, the teenage cupid with a penchant for plaid, continue here. Stuff still rules, High School...
| Author | Hope Larson |
| ISBN | 1684150531 |
Catch up with the coolest new girl detective on the block, Goldie Vance.
Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance has an insatiable curiosity with dreams of one day becoming a detective. Luckily, she lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place, and with a rotating roster...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1935179896 |
In this modern-day fable, Wanda calls her brother and sister "fans," keeps up with celebrity news, and never misses a chance to share a selfie. She's ready to show the world how Wanda-ful she really is, but all people are interested in is . . . her dog! Superstar cartoonists Eleanor Davis and Drew Weing...
Volume 2 of the Hopeless Savages series finds Dirk Hopeless, Nikki Savage, and their darling children reunited after a foiled kidnapping attempt, but now facing an even greater challenger: a "Behind the Music" style video special that intrudes upon everyone's lives, placing them under the type of...
| Author | Ron Wimberly |
| ISBN | 1401220681 |
A hip-hop retelling of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that focuses on Tybalt (derisively referred to as "the Prince of Cats") and his Capulet crew as they do battle nightly with the hated Montagues. Set in a Blade Runner-esque version of Brooklyn, PRINCE OF CATS is a mix of urban melodrama, samurai...
| Author | Chris Northrop |
| ISBN | 1936393743 |
There's Always a Reason
Wendell, a high school outcast, lives a lonely, suburban existence, losing himself in books in order to avoid his distant, motorcycle-riding stepfather, Ted. When the school bullies convince Wendell to explore the long-abandoned Renaissance Faire grounds they...
